Open Source is the new trend. When most of the major corporations are moving towards an open architecture by using Open Source tools and even pushing there internal projects into open source, it really makes your contributions worthy. But before starting with the contributions a…

There are times when we want to start of our career, we want to learn, explore and more importantly understand how things work. We start to build small projects to kick start with our thinking, and eventually we bump up into the question that what…

There are times when we need to trace what the program is doing. To know about what calls our program makes and what signals it raises or receives. The strace command can prove to be useful when we are tracing a program for which we…

Recently, I published a post on how I view the concept of the Open Health Data. The concept has many benefits, from providing a single place for accessing all your health related data, helping researchers analyze new patterns and to help the doctors take a…

Building up on my previous post, where I talked about profiling applications using perf command. Now, I will like to shed some light upon some other tools which can come handy in understanding your system performance. Linux provides a lot of inbuilt tools which can…